I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!